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Joyent wants to make it easier for enterprises of all sizes to adopt and manage private clouds. The company’s latest SmartDataCenter cloud management solution adds support for server and network virtualization, operations management and customer self-service.

Red Hat is shipping an integrated BPM platform engineered to provide IT and non-technical business users with full lifecycle support features for design, test, operations and monitoring. Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite aims to give companies more agility, automation and intelligence for business automation projects.

IBM SoftLayer has launched Direct Link, a dedicated new cloud connection service to make it easier for customers to design and launch hybrid clouds that bring together their existing private infrastructures with the SoftLayer platform.

Tresata has rolled out the third-generation of TREE, a Hadoop-powered software to integrate disparate datasets. A data fusion engine, TREE is programmed to crunch transactional data, market data, customer service data and social network data and surf through data regardless of whether it is structured or unstructured.

This week, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is officially launched. Red Hat’s latest enterprise-class OS is designed to meet the needs of today’s cloud, big data and next-gen data center projects and will lay a foundation for what the company calls an “open hybrid cloud” that can run apps, data and workloads across a new heterogeneous IT infrastructure of bare metal, VMs and cloud.

HP is updating its HP Vertica Analytics Platform with technologies that should lead to faster and smarter ways to lower cost and complexity for data analytics. The coming HP Vertica Dragline will sport several new features, including “Project Maverick” Live Aggregate Projections that can speed up analytic queries by up to 10x.

Progress OpenEdge application development and SaaS platform are helping a local food company provide fresh produce to local schools, hospitals and retailers. IDN also looks at Progress’ latest innovations as it builds out a rich cloud-based ‘apps lifecycle’ with PaaS, integration and runtime capabilities.

The mobile and cloud markets are converging to fuel faster growth than expected, according to a survey of 100 U.S.-based technology executives conducted by KPMG. In fact, execs also said they expect strong spending will also continue for data, analytics and security.

Cisco and Dimension Data has extended their partnership to focus on accelerating the adoption of the hybrid cloud globally. The Cisco / Data Dimensions cloud partnership will deliver an application centric cloud infrastructure that will let customers choose the best cloud for their various workloads.

Software AG, having completed the acquisition of mobility firm metaquark, is using the technology to bring more powerful and flexible mobile capabilities to its Intelligent Business Operations and webMethods Business Process Management platforms.

Email data protection company Zix Corp. has rolled out ZixDLP Insight, a new solution that provides customers with out-of-the-box capabilities to detect and analyze email policy violations without impeding communications or business workflows. For highly-sensitive use cases, ZixDLP Insight can also support custom policy configurations.